Tag Archives: Environment

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a letter to the president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency asking that ostriches at a B.C. farm be spared from a planned cull. Kennedy, the U.S. secretary for h...

MONT-JOLI - Last year, the Gulf of St. Lawrence recorded its highest maximum surface temperature and lowest seasonal volume of ice cover in decades, say researchers with the federal Fisheries Departme...

OTTAWA - There surely won't be lions or tigers at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., next month, and officials are doing their best to keep bears away, too. As many as 5,000 participants are set to d...

HALIFAX - As the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start, a senior Environment Canada meteorologist says experts are predicting another active year for tropical storms. But Bob Robichaud at the Ca...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine reptile he...

RCMP liaison officers have visited a British Columbia ostrich farm to prepare for potential arrests at the property where protesters are trying to prevent a cull of about 400 birds ordered by the Cana...

SAINTE-MONIQUE - Andr Lemire said he was woken up early Wednesday morning by his partner, who had heard ominous noises outside the farm where they live in Ste-Monique, Que. They left the home, and whe...

MONTREAL - Two Indigenous organizations have issued eviction notices to a number of Quebec forestry companies in the province's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie and Cte-Nord regions. The Mamo allianc...

MONTREAL - Weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the federal consumer carbon levy, more than half of Quebecers want their province to follow suit and abolish its own price on carbon, a new p...

OTTAWA - Signs that underlying inflation was picking up in April put the Bank of Canada in a tricky position ahead of its June interest rate decision, with some economists arguing a second straight pa...